vagitare

vagitare [LL], a (of infant) to utter cries of distress, wail. b (of hare, making its characteristic sound). a adora Deum tuum regnantem in caelis, quem magus adoravit ~antem in cunabulis Alcuin Haer. 13; [Willelmus Waleys] qui etiam infantes, in cunis ~antes, vel pendentes ad matrum ubera, evisceravit Rish. 226; to wepe, dolere, con-, ejulare ‥ lacrimas fundere, vagire infantum est, ~are CathA.  b lepores ~ant Aldh. PR 131.